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- It's Bagels are opening in Notting Hill
Updated 13/8/24 with the new opening date
A few weeks back, super viral bagel bakery It's Bagels put a post up on Instagram looking for staff. "We are expanding," they said. Thanks to a Hot Dinners reader, we discovered that they were coming to Notting Hill. Since then we've found out more about what this new location is bringing.
They've picked the site that used to belong to Rika Moon on
... - Viral Leeds bakery Get Baked is popping up at Fortnum's
Leeds bakery Get Baked makes a cake so viral that mere minutes after sales go live on their website every slice is gone in a flash. Now, Get Baked by Rich Myers is coming to London.
Best known for its Bruce cake - a towering 24-layered chocolate cake - the London pop-up will showcase the creation of Bruce's successor, the Bertha which is exactly the same except for one detail, the ganache will be a mix of milk and
... - Chatsworth Bakehouse open a second place in Crystal Palace
If there's anything that London simply can't get enough of at the moment, it's bakeries. And one of those bakeries that Londoners are obsessed with is about to open a second place - a second Chatsworth Bakehouse is on the way.
However, if you're hoping they'll make it to your side of the capital, we're sorry to tell you that they haven't gone far. The current bakery is at
... - Milk opens new bakery Milk Run in Tooting Bec
They're already big with their cafe in Balham and now Milk have opened a brand new bakery just down the road towards Tooting Bec called Milk Run.
If you fancy a Milk pastry to-go, this will be the place for you with croissants, pain au chocolat and more sweet or savoury pastries on offer, as well as sourdough loaves. They also have a small pantry offering drinks, cupboard staples and bags of coffee
... - The Dusty Knuckle come to Highbury Fields with a cafe in a van
Dusty Knuckle have arrived in Islington, and they're trying something new. While they've delivered by milk float before, this will be their first-ever bakery in an actual van. It's parked up in Highbury Fields (near the bottom of the tennis courts section) and they say they're planning to be there for the next 12-18 months.
The bakery will have a selection of bread (including
... - Birdmilk sees Ukrainian restaurant duo opening a bakery in Notting Hill
Notting Hill's well-heeled residents will soon have another lovely new bakery on their doorstep. Birdmilk is the latest in a recent line of businesses that originated in Ukraine but have also opened in London like Boca a Boca and Piana Vyshnia.
The restaurateurs behind it are Dima Zakhodiakin and Alina Kosichkina who own 32 restaurants in Kyiv including bakery chain Khlebniy which this London opening is
... - St John drop two new doughnut flavours
What a time to be alive! This week St John Bakery have dropped not one but two new doughnut flavours for the delectation of London's bakery addicts. First up is the pistachio doughnut featuring pistachio flecked custard making them, as they say, "an exercise in pure and lovely joy."
But that's not all. For the bakers behind one of London's most-favoured doughnuts have also got another new flavour up their
... - London's restaurants, bakeries and cafés with perma-queues - the hype is real
Are you the kind of Londoner who spends their weekends and evenings queueing for the must-have cake or burger? We take a look at the places that have permanent queues outside.
- Astrid Bakery is opening in Muswell Hill
Updated 15/4/24 with opening date
London's boutique bakery boom shows no signs of a downturn. We first became aware of Astrid Bakery during lockdown. Run by former fashion journalist Charlotte O'Kelly who retrained at Le Cordon Bleu after starting a family, its luxury breakfast box deliveries were a massive hit in those dark times and have been doing great business ever since.
But, like
... - Where to buy a crookie in London
If you like being at the cutting edge of bakery viraldom, then you'll want to know about the arrival of the Parisian pastry sensation, the crookie, in London. Here's where to find it.
- Sourdough Sophia opens her bakery in Islington
Islington is starting to do very well indeed when it comes to great bakeries. We already have Jolene and Pophams, Quince opened only a couple of months ago and now there's the arrival of Sourdough Sophia, who's just unveiled her second bakery, on Essex Road.
Taking over what used to be a Costa
... - Layers Bakery opens in E14 with ex-Hedone team in charge
If your cravings lean towards the freshly baked kind, then you might want to consider joining the queue outside Layers Bakery, which opened a store and cafe down by the waterfront on the Goodluck Hope island in East London last month. It joins a hub of other creative outlets and independent businesses on the industrial-inspired riverside development on the Leamouth Peninsula, where you can see everything from the English National
... - Quince Bakery prepares to open in Islington
Updated 8/2/24 with opening date
Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor before becoming Executive Pastry Chef at The River Café. So it's fair to say she knows a thing or two about baked goods.
As for the bread she'll be baking, it'll be sourdough breads
... - Philippe Conticini are bringing their giant croissants to Islington
If, like us, you live around Islington and have been wondering what's taking over the big site that used to be Rudy's Vegan Diner then wonder no more. Getting ready to open there is Philippe Conticini.
If that name sounds familiar, it's because you might have come across his work at the café in South Kensington or Camden's Buck Street Market. Or perhaps it's because
... - Chai Guys Bakehouse will serve up fusion pastries on Portobello Road
Updated 9/11/23 with menu details and new opening date
Over the past few years, Abhilash Jobanputra and Gabriel Unger have built up a loyal following for their Chai Guys stalls in places like Seven Dials Market, Covent Garden and Old Spitalfields Market. But this year marks the time when they switched it up as the pair are opening a bakery cafe in Notting Hill.
Their bakehouse on Portobello Road,
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